Bead talk : Indigenous knowledge and aesthetics from the Flatlands / edited by Carmen Robertson, Judy Anderson, and Katherine Boyer.
2024
NK3650.5.C22 P73 2024
On loan from 2nd (Main) Floor, due 13. Mar 2025
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Title
Bead talk : Indigenous knowledge and aesthetics from the Flatlands / edited by Carmen Robertson, Judy Anderson, and Katherine Boyer.
ISBN
1772840653
9781772840650 (softcover)
9781772840681 (hardcover)
1772840688
9781772840650 (softcover)
9781772840681 (hardcover)
1772840688
Published
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press, [2024]
Copyright
©2024
Language
English
Description
xvii, 176 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Call Number
NK3650.5.C22 P73 2024
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1392339883
Summary
"Indigenous beadwork has taken the art world by storm, but it is still sometimes misunderstood as static, anthropological artifact. Today's prairie artists defy this categorization, demonstrating how beads tell stories and reclaim space and cultural identity. Whether artists seek out and share techniques through YouTube videos or in-person community gatherings, beading fosters traditional methods of teaching and learning and enables intergenerational transmissions of pattern and skill. In Bead Talk, editors Carmen Robertson, Judy Anderson, and Katherine Boyer gather conversations, interviews, essays, and full-colour reproductions of artwork from expert and emerging artists, academics, and curators to illustrate the importance of beading in contemporary Indigenous arts. Taken together, the book poses and responds to philosophical questions about beading on the prairies: How do the practices and processes of beading embody reciprocity, respect, and storytelling? How is beading related to Indigenous ways of knowing? How does beading help individuals reconnect with the land? Why do we bead? Showcasing beaded tumplines, text, masks, regalia, and more, Bead Talk emphasizes that there is no one way to engage with this art. The contributors to this collection invite us all into the beading circle to witness the creation and display of Indigenous beadwork, reshape how beads are understood, and stitch together generations of artists."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Foreword / Brenda Macdougall
Who we are
Introduction / Carmen Robertson, Judy Anderson, and Katherine Boyer
Part I. Conversations. 1. Mentoring/beading / Ruth Cuthand and Marcy Friesen ; 2. Mîkisistahêwin (bead medicine) / Judy Anderson and Audie Murray ; 3. Parallel lines move along together: a beaded line that connects me to you / Katherine Boyer and Dayna Danger ; 4. The power of gathering: revisiting the seeds of Ziigimineshin / Franchesca Hebert-Spence and Carmen Robertson ; 5. Beads, blood, and curating Ruth Cuthand's art / Felicia Gay and Carmen Robertson
Part II. Essays. 6. "Until we bead again": the Bu Beading Babes and embodying lateral love and generous reciprocity / Cathy Mattes with Franchesca Hebert-Spence, Debbie Huntinghawk, Albyn Carias, Christine Tokohopie, Justine Hutcheson, Jenna Brisson, Kevin McKenzie, Barb Blind, Eleanor Daniels, Kimmi Charlton, and Jessie Jannuska ; 7. Visiting kin: indigenous Flatland beading aesthetics / Carmen Robertson ; 8. If the needles don't break and the thread doesn't tangle: beading utopia / Sherry Farrell Racette
Spreading the bead love far and wide....
Who we are
Introduction / Carmen Robertson, Judy Anderson, and Katherine Boyer
Part I. Conversations. 1. Mentoring/beading / Ruth Cuthand and Marcy Friesen ; 2. Mîkisistahêwin (bead medicine) / Judy Anderson and Audie Murray ; 3. Parallel lines move along together: a beaded line that connects me to you / Katherine Boyer and Dayna Danger ; 4. The power of gathering: revisiting the seeds of Ziigimineshin / Franchesca Hebert-Spence and Carmen Robertson ; 5. Beads, blood, and curating Ruth Cuthand's art / Felicia Gay and Carmen Robertson
Part II. Essays. 6. "Until we bead again": the Bu Beading Babes and embodying lateral love and generous reciprocity / Cathy Mattes with Franchesca Hebert-Spence, Debbie Huntinghawk, Albyn Carias, Christine Tokohopie, Justine Hutcheson, Jenna Brisson, Kevin McKenzie, Barb Blind, Eleanor Daniels, Kimmi Charlton, and Jessie Jannuska ; 7. Visiting kin: indigenous Flatland beading aesthetics / Carmen Robertson ; 8. If the needles don't break and the thread doesn't tangle: beading utopia / Sherry Farrell Racette
Spreading the bead love far and wide....
Available Note
Issued also in electronic format.
Series
Paskwāwi masinahikewina ; 1.
Prairie writing ; 1.
Prairie writing ; 1.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Bead talk. Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, 2024
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